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Nice this is actually pretty exciting! Furmark is my go-to program for testing GPU overclocks and it has always annoyed me that I had to install Windows for 1 test.

Michael:
You should create a live CD for your PTS, based on some rolling release distro like gentoo or arch (so it's less to maintain). For many people like myself, installing the entire suite isn't really necessary and could actually be kinda a pain if we wanted to test it on multiple platforms. Maybe it could come with a few extra diagnostics like stress tests, sensor monitors, SMART tools, etc.

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Nice this is actually pretty exciting! Furmark is my go-to program for testing GPU overclocks and it has always annoyed me that I had to install Windows for 1 test.

Michael:
You should create a live CD for your PTS, based on some rolling release distro like gentoo or arch (so it's less to maintain). For many people like myself, installing the entire suite isn't really necessary and could actually be kinda a pain if we wanted to test it on multiple platforms. Maybe it could come with a few extra diagnostics like stress tests, sensor monitors, SMART tools, etc.

Bad idea. The CD or USB port would become the bottleneck, and if you copied the entire distro to RAM then it would affect any RAM-sensative benchmarks

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Bad idea. The CD or USB port would become the bottleneck, and if you copied the entire distro to RAM then it would affect any RAM-sensative benchmarks

I don't see how the CD or USB port would be a bottleneck unless the benchmark needs to reference the disk every once in a while in the middle of it's tests, in which case that particular benchmark could be cached before being run. It's a better idea than loading the entire image.

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Michael:
You should create a live CD for your PTS, based on some rolling release distro like gentoo or arch (so it's less to maintain). For many people like myself, installing the entire suite isn't really necessary and could actually be kinda a pain if we wanted to test it on multiple platforms. Maybe it could come with a few extra diagnostics like stress tests, sensor monitors, SMART tools, etc.

I do have a much more compelling version to be publicly released before EOY assuming I find some more server mirrors. Since the last public PTS Desktop Live release I've done some custom engineering projects on it with more features but lack of bandwidth / mirrors has kept me from releasing them.